President Donald Trump said in a speech to the nation that he's using federal power to secure elections from being “stolen.” In fact, one of the strongest security features of U.S. elections is their decentralized nature. This complexity makes rigging a national election — as Trump has said was done to him — virtually impossible. Trump has spent six years insisting he won the 2020 election, a vote he lost to former President Joe Biden by millions of votes. An Associated Press review in 2021 dug into every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states that Trump disputed and found the number of cases would have made no difference in the election results.

President Donald Trump is making a primetime address to the nation that's expected to include discussion of election issues. The Republican president has long insisted he won the 2020 election, even though the very people he appointed to oversee it said the count was accurate and he lost to Democrat Joe Biden. This term, Trump has appointed people who support his election falsehoods and launched a review of 2020 voting. There's a wide and deep record of investigations, by Republicans as well as nonpartisan groups that show Trump lost the election. The president hasn't revealed what he'll say in his speech but has teased “really big news.”

President Donald Trump has endorsed MyPillow founder Mike Lindell for Minnesota governor, praising him as “one of America’s greatest and most hard working Patriots.” Lindell has a national profile from his TV advertising campaign and he's been one of Trump’s most outspoken supporters, echoing the Republican president’s false claims his 2020 election defeat to Democrat Joe Biden was fraudulent. Trump posted Wednesday online, “Mike will be SPECTACULAR!!!" Trump says Lindell “loves Minnesota” and “wants to bring it back from oblivion and embarrassment.” Trump has accused outgoing Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of allowing rampant fraud in federal spending on childcare, which Walz disputes. Lindell's Republican rivals avoided criticizing Trump's choice. Minnesota's primaries are Aug. 11.

President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping executive action to overhaul elections in the United States. Tuesday's order demands documentary proof of citizenship be added as a requirement for federal voter registration. It also requires that all ballots be received by Election Day throughout the country. The move is consistent with Trump's long history of railing against election processes. He often claims elections are being rigged, even before the results are known, and has waged battles against certain voting methods since he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden and falsely blamed it on widespread fraud. Trump said Tuesday that more election actions would be taken in coming weeks.